From pycyn@aol.com Wed Aug 08 19:28:55 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Pycyn@aol.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_3_1); 9 Aug 2001 02:28:54 -0000 Received: (qmail 89559 invoked from network); 9 Aug 2001 02:28:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 9 Aug 2001 02:28:54 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO imo-r08.mx.aol.com) (152.163.225.104) by mta1 with SMTP; 9 Aug 2001 02:28:54 -0000 Received: from Pycyn@aol.com by imo-r08.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v31.9.) id r.9e.186b2269 (3958) for ; Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:28:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <9e.186b2269.28a34f4b@aol.com> Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 22:28:27 EDT Subject: Another preliminary note on Indirect Questions To: lojban@yahoogroups.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="part1_9e.186b2269.28a34f4b_boundary" X-Mailer: AOL 6.0 for Windows US sub 10531 From: pycyn@aol.com --part1_9e.186b2269.28a34f4b_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It seems a stupid point, but indirect questions are by definition questions in indirect discourse. Consequently *they* can only occur as arguments of predicates of linguistic activity, where it would be possible to use direct discourse -- a quote -- instead. What the other things we are mainly talking about may be and how they are related (if at all) to indirect questions, needs to be worked out. The first step toward that is probably getting indirect questions in the ordinary sense out of the way and then getting some clear cases of the other things. If there are any. --part1_9e.186b2269.28a34f4b_boundary Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit It seems a stupid point, but indirect questions are by definition questions
in indirect discourse.  Consequently *they* can only occur as arguments of
predicates of linguistic activity, where it would be possible to use direct
discourse -- a quote -- instead.  What the other things we are mainly talking
about may be and how they are related (if at all) to indirect questions,
needs to be worked out.  The first step toward that is probably getting
indirect questions in the ordinary sense out of the way and then getting some
clear cases of the other things.  If there are any. --part1_9e.186b2269.28a34f4b_boundary--